The effectiveness of a community-based, type 2 diabetes prevention programme on health-related quality of life. The DE-PLAN study.

Background And Aims: The DE-PLAN was a European multicenter study, with the primary objective of testing whether a community-based lifestyle modification programme could serve as a means of primary prevention for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in high-risk individuals (based on the FINDRISC questionnaire). The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a 1-year community-based lifestyle intervention on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in individuals from four participating European centers (Athens, Barcelona, Krakow, Kaunas), through a post-hoc analysis.

Materials And Methods: Each center was allowed to implement different intervention strategies specifically tailored to the needs of their corresponding population sample.

Predictors of long term weight loss maintenance in patients at high risk of type 2 diabetes participating in a lifestyle intervention program in primary health care: The DE-PLAN study.

Lifestyle interventions in type 2 diabetes (DM2) prevention implementation studies can be effective and lasting. Long-term weight loss maintenance enhances the intervention effect through a significant decrease in diabetes incidence over time. Our objective was to identify factors predicting long-term successful weight reduction maintenance achieved during a DM2 prevention program in patients with high DM2 risk in primary health care.

Predictors of completing a primary health care diabetes prevention intervention programme in people at high risk of type 2 diabetes: Experiences of the DE-PLAN project.

It has been shown that real-life implementation studies for the prevention of type 2 diabetes (DM2) performed in different settings and populations can be effective. However, not enough information is available on factors influencing the reach of DM2 prevention programmes. This study examines the predictors of completing an intervention programme targeted at people at high risk of DM2 in Krakow, Poland as part of the DE-PLAN project.

Determinants of weight outcomes in type 2 diabetes prevention intervention in primary health care setting (the DE-PLAN project).

Background: Real life implementation studies performed in different settings have proved that lifestyle interventions in the prevention of type 2 diabetes (DM2) can be effective, although the weight reduction results are typically modest compared to randomized control trials. Our objective was to identify the factors that predict successful weight loss in a less intensive, lower budget, real life setting lifestyle diabetes prevention intervention.

Methods: Study participants (n = 175) with increased DM2 risk (Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) > 14) but no diabetes at baseline received ten group lifestyle counselling sessions, physical activity and motivation sessions during a ten-month intervention.

Sustained diabetes risk reduction after real life and primary health care setting implementation of the diabetes in Europe prevention using lifestyle, physical activity and nutritional intervention (DE-PLAN) project.

Background: Real life implementation studies performed in different settings and populations proved that lifestyle interventions in prevention of type 2 diabetes can be effective. However, little is known about long term results of these translational studies. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the maintenance of diabetes type 2 risk factor reduction achieved 1 year after intervention and during 3 year follow-up in primary health care setting in Poland.

Noninsulinoma pancreatogenous hypoglycaemia in adults--a spotlight on its genetics.

Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH) is also classically referred to as "nesidioblastosis". Heterogeneous clinical manifestation of the disease causes risk of late diagnosis or even misdiagnosis. In infants and children, it can lead to serious and permanent damage to the central nervous system, which leads to the manifesting mental retardation.

[Serum levels of 25(OH)D3 in patients with prostate cancer compared to healthy men].

Unlabelled: Prostate cancer (CaP) is one of the most common cancers in men. On the basis of international and Polish epidemiological data it is estimated that is the second leading cause of death from cancer. These data tend to look for underlying causes such a high incidence.

[Assessment of alcohol drinking model declared by male citizens living in Kraków district - Podgórze].

The aim of this paper was the assessment of alcohol model in population of men living in big city. To achieve this target we used data concerning alcohol drinking model incorporated in questionnaire filled by men participants of the Multicentre Studies and Epidemiology of Diabetes conducted from 1998 to 2000, 35-75 years of age, living in the Podgórze district of the city of Kraków. Based on declared data involved drinking frequency and alcohol amount drunk in one sitting in population of 1074 men, 35-75 years of age, we determined that 46.

Positive family history of thyroid disease as a risk factor for differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

Introduction: Apart from the environmental risk factors for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), such as iodine deficiency and ionising radiation, it seems that there are also other, biological risk factors, for example, familial predisposition to thyroid disease.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the occurrence of thyroid disease in the families of patients with DTC.

Patients And Methods: A case-control study was conducted in a group of 232 patients with DTC and in 342 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects.

[Alcohol consumption and the risk of insulin resistance--population based study].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between alcohol consumption and insulin resistance in the adult Kraków's inhabitants.

Materials And Methods: 6000 subjects at age 35-75, participants of the Polish Multicenter Study on Diabetes Epidemiology, were randomized and invited to the study. Finally in 2838 participants the standardized questionnaire examination of the life style especially alcohol consumption was performed.